The Challenge of Slums [[electronic resource] ] : Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 |
Autore | United Nations Human Settlements Programme |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
Disciplina |
307.3/364
307.3364 |
Soggetto topico |
Slums
Slums - Case studies Slums -- Case studies Slums - Government policy Slums -- Government policy Urban poor - Housing Urban poor -- Housing Urban poor - Statistics Urban poor -- Statistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786610476114
600-00-0018-9 1-4175-8331-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
THE CHALLENGE OF SLUMS GLOBAL REPORT ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS 2003; Copyright; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; Capacity building, research activities and knowledge exchange; Explanation of Symbols; Regional-Level Data; List of Figures, Boxes and Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Key Findings and Messages; Prologue: Urban Growth and Housing; Population Explosion and Urban Expansion; Accommodating Growth; The Focus of this Report; Notes; PART I: SHARPENING THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA; CHAPTER 1 Development Context and the Millennium Agenda; Cities Without Slums?
The failure of governanceInstitutional and legal failure; The Millennium Development Agenda; Understanding Slums; The notion of slums; Defining and measuring slums; Characteristics of slums; Lack of basic services; Substandard housing or illegal and inadequate building structures; Overcrowding and high density; Unhealthy living conditions and hazardous locations; Insecure tenure; irregular or informal settlements; Poverty and social exclusion; Minimum settlement size; Operational definition of slums; Number of slum dwellers: assessments and estimations; Trends in numbers of slum dwellers NotesCHAPTER 2 Urbanization Trends and Forces Shaping Slums; Socio-Economic Inequality; Spatial organization and residential differentiation; The ecological school and the neo-classical model; Factorial ecology; Measuring spatial inequality and separation; Spatial concentration of poverty; Urban form and disadvantage; Mosaic post-modern cities in the developing world; Measuring urban development and disadvantage; Challenges to Sustainable Urbanization; Demographic changes and slum formation; Urban growth; Rural-urban migration; International migration; Declining areas and depopulation PovertyPoverty and slums; Defining poverty; Measurement of poverty incidence; Targeting of poverty reduction programmes; Notes; CHAPTER 3 Cities and Slums within Globalizing Economies; Inequality and Poverty; Inequality: a recent history; Globalization: poverty amid affluence; Trade, globalization and cities; Trade theory and inequality; Trade: the reality; Finance, information and economic volatility; Labour markets under free trade regimes; Africa: economic stagnation in a globalizing world; The Retreat of the State; Privatization of utilities; Structural adjustment, cities and poverty The Local and the GlobalInsecurity and the diffusion of the local; Subsidiarity and the weakening of national governments; Transurban cooperation and integration: towards new urban economies; Slums and globalization; Looking ahead; Notes; PART II: ASSESSING SLUMS IN THE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT; CHAPTER 4 Social Dimensions; Historical Context and Evolution of Social Stratification Patterns; Views on inner-city slums; Slums and urbanization; Slums and capitalism; Slums and reformism; Are slums inevitable?; Social diversity of contemporary slums; Social Attributes and Functions of Slums Accommodation of low-cost labour |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450368503321 |
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The challenge of slums [[electronic resource] ] : global report on human settlements 2003 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Earthscan, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 310 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 307.3364 |
Soggetto topico |
Slums
Urban poor |
ISBN |
9781849772907 (e-book)
9781844070367 (hbk.) 9781844070374 (pbk.) 1-84977-290-8 1-136-55476-9 1-136-55475-0 1-280-47611-7 9786610476114 600-00-0018-9 1-4175-8331-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue: urban growth and housing -- Part I Sharpening the global development agenda -- 1. Developing context and the millennium agenda -- 2. Urbanization trends and forces shaping slums -- 3. Cities and slums within globalizing economies -- Part II Assessing slums in the development context -- 4. Social dimensions -- 5. Territoriality and spatial forms -- 6. Economic dynamics -- Part III Search for adequate policy responses and actions -- 7. New policy developments at the national and global levels -- 8. Civil society in action -- 9. Towards inclusive cities : reconsidering development priorities -- Epilogue : looking forward - moving ahead -- Part IV Summary of city case studies -- Overview of case studies -- Case studies highlights -- Part V Statistical annex -- Technical notes -- Methodological notes -- Data tables -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783532703321 |
London, : Earthscan, 2003 | ||
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Il pianeta degli slum / Mike Davis ; traduzione di Bruno Amato |
Autore | DAVIS, Mike <1946- > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano : Feltrinelli, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 213 p. ; 22 cm |
Disciplina | 307.3364 |
Collana | Serie bianca |
Soggetto topico | Metropoli - Periferie - Condizioni socioeconomiche |
ISBN | 88-07-17126-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNISA-990003510860203316 |
DAVIS, Mike <1946- >
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Milano : Feltrinelli, 2006 | ||
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Parcours de vie et mémoires de pauvres / / Aude Martenot |
Autore | Martenot Aude |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bern : , : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxii, 478 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
Disciplina | 307.3364 |
Collana | Population, family, and society |
Soggetto topico | Slums |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910416117203321 |
Martenot Aude
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Bern : , : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, , 2019 | ||
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Peripherein : pensare diversamente la periferia / Agostino Petrillo |
Autore | Petrillo, Agostino <1957- > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano : FrancoAngeli, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 159 p. ; 18 cm |
Disciplina | 307.3364 |
Collana | Sociologia urbana e rurale |
Soggetto non controllato | Periferia - Condizioni socio - economiche |
ISBN | 978-88-204-2119-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990009895510403321 |
Petrillo, Agostino <1957- >
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Milano : FrancoAngeli, 2013 | ||
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Politics and Community-Based Research : Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg / / Claire Benit-Gbaffou [and three others], editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johannesburg : , : Wits University Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (432 pages) |
Disciplina | 307.3364 |
Soggetto topico |
Slums
City planning - Social aspects |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910504305703321 |
Johannesburg : , : Wits University Press, , 2019 | ||
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Spaces of the poor : perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants / / edited by Hans-Christian Petersen |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.3364 |
Collana | Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften |
Soggetto topico |
Urban poor
Urban renewal |
Soggetto non controllato |
Culture
Poverty Slum Social History Social Inequality Sociology Space Urban Studies Urbanity |
ISBN | 3-8394-2473-9 |
Classificazione | LB 45000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 Contents 5 lntroduction 7 A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure 15 The Subalterns Speak Out 47 "... not intended for the Rich" 71 Blood in the Air 97 Outcast Vienna 1900 121 Revisiting Campbell Bunk 135 Creating the City of Delhi 147 Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks 169 Urban Poverty and Gentrification 193 Europe's only Megacity 209 Contributors 237 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213856103321 |
Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2013] | ||
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Spaces of the poor : perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants / / edited by Hans-Christian Petersen |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.3364 |
Collana | Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften |
Soggetto topico |
Urban poor
Urban renewal |
Soggetto non controllato |
Culture
Poverty Slum Social History Social Inequality Sociology Space Urban Studies Urbanity |
ISBN | 3-8394-2473-9 |
Classificazione | LB 45000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 Contents 5 lntroduction 7 A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure 15 The Subalterns Speak Out 47 "... not intended for the Rich" 71 Blood in the Air 97 Outcast Vienna 1900 121 Revisiting Campbell Bunk 135 Creating the City of Delhi 147 Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks 169 Urban Poverty and Gentrification 193 Europe's only Megacity 209 Contributors 237 |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996308828503316 |
Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2013] | ||
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